No Flowers Required (Love Required, #2)

by Cari Quinn

[Cocktails and Books]

Alexa Conroy hates everything about Value Hardware, She hates the cheap flower arrangements they sell and she hate that they are taking business away from her flower shop. Alexa is in a terrible financial mess she inherited from her mentor and former owner of the flower shop. She has sold her dream home to move into a craptastic apartment above the store in an effort to economize and bring the debts under control before she ends up losing the shop.

Dillan James bad boy son and second in line to take over Value Hardware would rather work with his hands in the families rental properties than help build the corporation his family owns. While working on the rehab of a vacant apartment in Alexa's building she mistakes him for the handyman and asks him to come fix her bathroom sink that has soaked her to the skin while she was trying to get moved in.

Dillian doesn't correct Alexa's mistake and soon he feels he can't. As the relationship between Alexa and Dillian grows and Alexa starts to trust Dillian he feels worse and worse about perpetuating the mistaken identity but is afraid to lose her.

Wow! This is an amazingly well written book with an awesome strong heroine and a bad boy with a marshmallow center hero. Ms. Quinn brings the characters to life in a way that you can almost experience the ups and downs of the relationship, as well as feel the heat from the spicy sex scenes. Alexa is your average hard working small business owner who has more than her share of downs when it comes to her flower shop but she is willing to put everything on the line to keep it going, she has not been open in the past to relationships and love. Dillian wants to give back to the world around him and works hard to make the properties he is in charge of a better place as well as working hard for a charity that helps build houses for veterans and their family's.

You will be able to dive into this story and feel the love, sexual tension and frustrations that the characters go through, while this is a second in a series it completely stands alone with brief cameos by the hero and heroine of the first book.

I give this book a 5 Cocktails!